The Canadian Jewish News, Friday, January 2, 1976-Page 3
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ByJOMlRACLODMAN
OTTAWA —
Howard, Roller has been accused of creating bad relations with the non-Jewish community.
The objection, levied by Jews, didn't deter the 'University of Montreal jjrofessor recently from vehemently criticizing Westerir policies towards Jew:$ during the^ World War II.
"The time has come when we can't w o r r y about bad relations*" he
told an audience recently, at Ottawa's Jewish Community Centre. "The time has come to tell the truth.";
Roiter recalled a 1938 petition to the House of Com moos protesting" against immigration — and especially Jewish immigration — w- h i c h Tarried"-!27,000 sigha^ tures. L_
Individuals entering Canada afiter the. war only had to swear that they weren't Communists, he pointed out,  but those
entering the United States also had to vow that they weren't Nazis. , ; He also charged the American government with deliberately and successfully preventing inany J e w.i s h refugeeirfrom entering 4|^country.
Repeateorequests that authorjtics bomb the railway lines to Auschwitz led to repeated refusals, he said. "There -were no bombs for the rails to Auschwitz because those lines carried Jews."
Roiter  spoke  of the
difficulty of teaching the first course on Holocaust literature ever offered at a Canadian university. When the truth about history is learned, he asked ,"5^00 I reint&rce my studeiits' patriotism?"
On July 16. 1942, Paris police-rounded up 13,000 Jews and sent _them to their deaths, he pointed oiit; This was the only police force in an occypied land which zealously complied with -G e St a p o orders, he stressed.
"What can a French
student think?"
Holocaust studies may destroy a student's faith in human justice and jpro-foundly shake his faith in God, he argued. But "we have a debt of memory. to those who are largely forgotten."
"Even the state of Israel forgot them until the_ Eichmann trial was deliberately held, to reverse that state of forget-fulness," he added.
It's useless to speak of numbers as large as .five or six million, said Roiter:
"We must humanize the Holocaust" by talking about individuals. Students can feel the tragedy of one person.
• Individual acts of dig-niiy and kindness'must be remembered, he continued. "We have to give.a posthumous existence tiS" those people who des.e.rve -
,io have their agony made known.'-'
The United Nations vote equating Zionism with racism andldi Am-in's pronouncement that
Hitler treated the Jews "correctly" have dispelled the illusion that 'it can't happen here,' said the University of Montreal professor.
His cynicism also" ex-tends to democratic states. "Were it not for
our votes, they would sell us down the river too," he commented.
A final lesson pan be learned from studying the Holocaust, he conclude3u "The only people who care about Jews are Jews?^
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From Our Quebec Bureau
MONTREAL —
In an age when volun-teerism is still snubbed iii many quarters, the Had-assah-WlZO Organization of Canada remains as strong as ever and promises to remain so if the record 1.000 delegates registered for the 26th biennial convention to be held here from Jian. 11 to
^Christians mustalt^
perceptions'
L. Wintrol
Jews; I th^ briiht <3,_ .lisp,, theyijpusS realize it 'is ^iproblem- Christians musi-overcome-by themselves without assistance, says a ydUi^ rabbinical /schola^Olfi early' church literatufe?^^ / "' Rabbi.Micbael Cook of Hebrew :Union College, Cincinnati, tQld a packed. auditonuni at Holy Blossom Teiriplei. recently there is little Jews can do in an effort tQ alter Chris-t i a n perceptions of history, specifically the puzzling inconsistencies and inaccuracies of the trial and death of Jesus Christ.
The trial, he explained, is replete with insoluble discrepancies and it is important ^hat it be approached solely as a puzzling academic exercise. Any truths that may be uncovered, he added, will [ not drastically resolve Christian attitudes toward Jews.
Although good Chrisr tian scholars have fully analyzed the origins of Jesus' trial, there is a large gap between the knowledge accumulated by scholars and what filters down to the Christian laity. Rabbi C o o k remarked.
"Until Christians get proper instruction in the origins of how their own Bible developed, they will still have 'eyes that will not see' and 'ears that will hot hear'."
Jn the 20th century, there is no aspect of Jesus* life that Jews have responded to more fully .than his trial and execution, the rabbi noted. The reason is obvious, he says, since the Gospels hold Jewish people responsible for his death — not just oiir ancestors but ourselves.
Rabbi Cook pointed out that the early cliurcfi'Kepf* few records of Jesus* life because it expected his almostjmmedialje return. All four of the Gospels were written 40 to 100 years after the event and none of the \yriters ever lived in Palestine.. ,
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14 is any indication.
"The volunteer often has a more important role to play than the professional; We can sometimes approach projects from an entirjely different outlook." said Lily Frank, the 16.0()0-member organization's national executive-director.
The theme of the 1976 convention. "One People — One Destiny"' reflecting the cominon concern of ail Jews for each other's problems, underlines the urgency felt by Hadassah for the growing isolation of Israel in the world, she explained.
A full slate of prominent people are scheduled to sjieak during the four-day event. They include Stephen J. S o 1 a r z, Democratic representative for New York in the United States Congress and m em bet of the Foreign Affairs Commit-
tee; Raphaella Bils*ki, head of the prime minister's Office of S o c i a 1 Welfare in Israel; Leooard Fein, professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies at Brandeis University and founder-editor with" Elie Weisel of, Moment Magazine, and Reuven Feuerstein. director of the Hadassah - . WIZO Research Institute and Child Guidance Clinic in Jerusalem..
Also on the itinerary are discussions . with Beate Klarsfield, a 36-year-bld German Christian who has become one of Europe's most outspoken critics against N a z is still at large. Franklin H. Littell, president of Christiians Con-c e r n for Israel, Aya Dinstein. chairman of World WIZO. Eva Schindler-Rainman, an expert on leadership training  and volunteer-
ism, and Irving Bernstein; ' executive viccrchairman of the 'United Jewish Appeal in the United States.
Gershon Avner, secretary to the cabinet in Israel and a former ambassador to Canada, is expected to deliver an important message at the closing banquet.
Other special guests at the convention will be Sir Marcus and Lady Sieff from England, J u d y LaMarsh, Israeli Ambassador to Canada Morde-chaiShalev, and Dt. Leon Kronitz of the Canadian Zionist Federation.
Lectures by these speakers will act - as a springboard, for discussion in smaller groups, on such topics as public af-fairs, fund-raising' techniques. educational and organizational growth within Hadassah over the next two years.
Mrs. Bernard (Neri) Bloomfield, Hadassah national president, will be in chair for the organization's forthcoming convention in Montreal from Jan. 11-14.
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Murray B. Koffler has become chairman of the board of the Canadian Society for the Weizmann Institute of Science. He has served as national president almost since its inception. James S. Kay has been named president and principattJpi^tionarofficer. .
Both men are members of the international board hf govemors and 'sit on the .executive counciiiof the Weizmann J nsTitute. ^
Dr. Stephen S. Barber, chief executive of the organization for .the past 10 years, .was elected to the position of executive vice-president. The society's staff is being enlarged by the appointments of Leonard Rosen of Montreal and Kenneth Dunn of Toronto.
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Shouki a landlord and tenant wish.to a^jree liii an increase m rent a!>ive iheeiKlit per ct-ni guideline, during the periikJ July 30 to I>eceinlx*r.'51,1975,1'hey must complete a rent increase .agreement, . substanti;illy in the fonnbeltiw-. no later thanjaiiuary-17.197(i. Copies of such agreements should be ■' . retained by b()th parties.The fiirni Ix'lovv.ora ciipy of it. may Ix.-u.sed. : _ .■ '
It\after haviiijj sijjned sucliareiU increasea>jreeinein..tlK'tenant wi.--he> to rev(ike the agreement, the tenant may do .so within    days of the date of the agreemeni by C'>mpieting a statement (if rev(K\atiim siniilar t(> the one at the l>)ttoin of the'fiiriii bebw.
By signing a rent increase agreement, the tenant waivo the right lo di>puie tlie:iiicrfa.>e m rent agreedupon during the iil>ive period and w-aives the right to collect a rebate of ivnt as piovick-d i<K in the act (ither thaii theaiViouiU of rebate, if any. stateclin theagreeiiient.
Such a rent increase agreement does not apply lothe rental rate for,my periodafier December 31,197,5. aiid diies not constitute aw-aivenofthe'tenant's right to'appeid the amount of rent charged after that date. N'o'rdoesit relieve the landlord of his obligation to obtain theapproval of a rent review officer, to charge rent after that date tliat is more than eight per cent in t-xcess ut the rem charged in the : la.st full iniinth the preinises.were rented priiir til .August r. 197.5.
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AGREEMENT
Agreement respecting a-iu ]);iy;il)lc-between July 30,1975,;and DeL-eiiilx'r;>l. Ut7,'iiiKiusive. This is to confinn that ——-—-■-^---■-- ;i> laivdlord. and ;
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December 31.1975. and that theiimnuni. if any. that is to be rebated to the tenant for e\ces> rent paid
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during that period isS-■-—r-——-—'■-'■—-—■-'--—'■—-—■-
The tenant niay revoke this agreement at any time within 30 days of the date of signing. .
Dated this-
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LANDLORD
TENANT
REVOCATION
The att;iched rent increase agreement datedihe of_^__-'■'
(Date ot Sign,tneagreen-.ent) 197      . is jicreby revoked.
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